Una avanzada del progreso

Synopsis of Una avanzada del progreso

«Una avanzada del progreso» is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (63 pages, in Spanish).

Kayerts and Carlier, two employees of a trading company, are assigned to a remote station on the Congo River. Isolated and inexperienced, their work falls apart amid isolation and disease; Conrad turns their failure into a bitter critique of colonialism and European exploitation of Africa.

The work was originally published in 1897; this edition belongs to the Alianza Cien collection, no. 15.

For those interested in Joseph Conrad's short fiction and in critiques of colonialism in classic fiction.